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System Integration between Apptio Planning and IBM Cognos Analytics/Prism

We are using both IBM products (Apptio Planning and IBM Cognos Analytics/Prism). Apptio Planning is our IT Finance forecasting tool while IBM Cognos Analytics/Prism is our global centralized forecasting tool for the company. At the moment we are s...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

API endpoint for User Management to allow customers to configure user profile characteristics such as auto-e-mails

Currently all users have summary e-mails enabled by default and only option is for all users to receive or all users not receive. Having a n API endpoint would allow us to programatically edit user profiles to provide a better user experience.
12 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 2 Future consideration

Need a feature to monitor the long running job in IBM i

Need a feature to monitor the long running job in IBM i. The time exception will be provided by application team for the respective jobs. The alert should be triggered with the time threshold for that particular job is breached.
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

Ability to create tickets for RI Recommendations (Similar to rightsizing) - SNOW Integration

Ability to create tickets for RI Recommendations (Similar to rightsizing) - SNOW Integration
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Not under consideration

Report Favorites should be removed if a report is marked inactive or moved to an unviewable collection

Currently, the ability to mark a report as a favorite is available to all users in Production. The TBMAs have no visibility to know what users have marked reports as a favorite. In fact, even if a TBMA impersonates another user, the favorites that...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Dynamic headers and footers in Print Layout

Currently, in Print Layout, there is functionality for Headers and Footers. In the documentation, it is stated that dynamic text is supported in headers but it seems this is dependent on the users PDF generator. We use the PDF generator of the web...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Control Plain of Instana agents is required in Air-Gap environment.

The customer is considering expanding the usage of Instana SaaS. One thing that the customer is worrying about is to manage the update of Instana agents in restricted internet-access environment. Now, Instana agents are running as static mode and ...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Regarding the option to retrieve data in Pricing Currency instead of Billing Currency on Azure

When importing Azure cost data into Cloudability, the system currently uses the Billing Currency. However, it appears that Apptio BI uses the Pricing Currency instead. Because Cloudability relies on the Billing Currency, we must manually upload ex...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Ignore today's date when running comparison reports

When running cost comparison reports, today's date is included in the analysis. For example, if I select "This month" and compare it against "Last month-to-date", it's never an equal comparison as "This month" includes the day that you are running...

Need an option in Instana to save snapshots of a particular application perspective locally and compare them later with another snapshot or live one.

We need to have a option for saving a snapshots of particular application perspective in instana, save it in local. Later compare with another snapshot or the live one. Eg: We have an application perspective created as "xyz" & we have selected...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration